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Prevention of skin and soft tissue entrapment in tibial segment transportation
1Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma and Surgery, Children's University Hospital of Basle, Roemergasse 8, CH-4058 Basle, Switzerland. avocke@gwdg.de
International Orthopaedics
|December 11, 1999
Abstract:
We report of a ten year old patient with soft tissue damage and bone defect of the tibia as a sequel of osteomyelitis. After excision and stabilization with an Ilizarov fixateur segment transportation was started. In order to avoid skin and soft tissue entrapment in the docking region, we used a metal cage as a space provider, which was shortened as segment transportation progressed. To our knowledge this simple method has not been described so far.